Driver Help & Troubleshooting
Install problems, rollbacks, conflicts and driver discussions.
Controller woes. My wireless controller isn't working in a sports game or anything else since teh Logitech driver update. It used to be plug and play. I've tried restarting, reinstalling the game, and plugging directly into the PC 😂 I'm out of ideas. I've…
help!! question for teh network folks: do u install network drivers from teh chip maker or from your PC maker? Im looking at K8V XE Ethernet Adapter Driver from ASUS for my gaming laptop. My priority is fast downloads. Is there any real risk in going newer…
guys pls help i play an MMO every evening on my gaming laptop and know exactly how it should feel. after installing Gigabyte GA 8VM800M 775 MB VIA HyperionPro Driver 5.00, its noticeably choppier, frame times are all over teh place, and tonight it even…
long time lurker first post lol i finally have AC 97 ALC650 Audio CODECs Driver working nicely, and teh Realtek app offers virtual surround, bass boost, loudness equalization, and more. windows also has its own spatial sound options 😭 for movies on studio…
hmmmm ok every few hours my work PC loses an external drive, and the USB port stops responding. Im on the XH170V package from Shuttle. Ive seen people mention USB selective suspend, power management, and chipset drivers. Id love to understand which one is…
I installed teh AMD Radeon Crimson Edition Graphics Driver 17.4.1 Hotfix update last night and this morning my editing workstation looked like this in 3D apps: Little colored blocks, flickering lines, sometimes a whole strip of the screen goes green for a…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts my setup is a monitor on a USB C dock, and its been rock solid. since installing ASUS Radeon 8.001 (Windows 98SE/ME) , one of the screens randomly blinks black for a split second. sometimes its every few minutes,…
I'm genuinely confused. Picture on my AV receiver is great, but sound comes out of teh laptop speakers only. it started right after the NVIDIA driver update. ive checked the volume mixer, default device, everything I know of. theres simply no HDMI output to…
Sleep on my desktop is broken. It wont wake up. This started right after the chipset package update from ASRock. I realy rely on sleep, since I move between home and office every day. Is there a log or report that shows what woke it up or why it failed? Ive…
Every time Im in a competitive shooter, somewhere around opening the map, the game freezes and closes with this: the error text mentions DXGI ERROR DEVICE REMOVED. the graphics card is obviously still in the PC lmao this only started after I installed ASUS…
I installed the NVIDIA GeForce Notebook Graphics Driver 304.48 Beta update last night and this morning my living room PC looked like this in the browser: Little colored blocks, flickering lines, sometimes a whole strip of the screen goes green for a moment.…
so annoyed rn ive built and set up a few PCs, and Ive never been sure about chipset drivers. On my laptop after a CPU upgrade, Device Manager shows no unknown devices. Is there still a reason to install Surface Pro 2 Firmware and Driver May? Are there…
ugh. so this is new. artiafcts on teh desktop, and only since updating TNT/GeForce 44.04 (Windows NT) from Creative. ive already rebooted three times. they dont show up on the BIOS screen as far as I can tell, only once Windows loads. is that a meaningful…
My gaming desktop is performing like it lost a generation. a racing sim stutters in places that used to be smooth, all after the NVIDIA driver update. i'd like to measure this properly instead of going on feel. What's the right way to compare two drivers? i…
I lost a ranked match to this today, sooo forgive the tone. a racing sim hard freezes during about 20 minutes in and then I get this: It says teh device was removed. Removed! Two weeks ago I had zero crashes. In between, the only change was teh GeForce…
ok so my gaming laptop is performing like it lost a generation. a racing sim stutters in places that used to be smooth, all after teh Intel driver update. Id like to measrue this properly instead of going on feel 😤 Whats the right way to compare two…
mixed use PC here: mostly work. can someone who has tried both branhces share their experience?? i'd love to hear whether it made a real difference for machine learning experiments or whether it's mostly marketing. i am not chasing benchmark numbers. i…
guys pls help i use the front jack on my mid tower case every single day for a headset, since the VIA HD Audio driver package 5.20b update, plugging in does absolutely nothing... sound keeps playing through the speakers on the back... windows doesn't show a…
I downloaded NVIDIA ForceWare Driver 77.77 Certified , the download page clearly lists Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Im on one of those. I ran teh express install on my gamnig laptop and got this: it says the driver isn't compatible with this version of…
ok so i wanted to do a clean install on my prebuilt desktop. made a Windows USB stick, booted it, clicked through to teh disk selection srceen and got this: no drives at all, the BIOS clearly shows teh NVMe SSD with its correct model and size... ive remade…
Windows setup cant see my SSD on a new laptop. the installer just shows an empty list and a "Load driver" button. I'm doing upgrading the drive, so teh drive is supposed to be wiped anyway. BIOS detects it fine. I read about Intel VMD and RST, and that some…
im literally losing my mind here i sat down to join a call this morning and my family PC was completely silent. No sound from the studio monitors, no startup chime, nothing. The speaker icon has a red X and Sound settings says there are no output devices.…
help!! well, that went badly 🔥 I updated the storage controller driver on my editing workstation, rebooted, and now its this: Over and over. Safe Mode also crashes. The update was the Intel Chipset Inf Update Program 9.1.1.1012 Beta package from ASUS. The…
okay, this one's weird. wireless gaming headset plugged into a docking station, and Device Manager shows smth like an unknown USB dveice. The Intel update was installed yesterday. Id love to understand how USB audio actually gets its driver, cuz right now Im…
Our compact printer supports driverless printing, and Windows can add it without any vendor software. But Apple also offers Xerox Printer Drivers 4.0. For a shared apartment, is there any reason to install the vendor driver? 🙏 I'm hoping driverless means…
